High Complexity and Low Throughput. Reasons for Using an ORM.

I’ve recently stumbled upon an interesting blog post about when to use an ORM. I found it to be well-written and quite objective, specifically with respect to its model complexity and throughput diagram:

I’m personally impressed by the work ORMs have done for us in times when repetitive SQL started to get boring and CRUD was not yet established. But ORMs do have their caveats as they are indeed leaky abstractions.

The aforementioned article shows in what situations ORMs can pull their weight, and in what situations you better keep operating on a SQL level, using tools like jOOQ, MyBatis, Apache DbUtils, or just simply JDBC.